Take control of secondary distribution with better

planning, better management, better optimisation

Introducing FLO

FLO is the complete enterprise software solution for creating and managing route schedules to optimise fleet utilisation, capacity utilisation and kilometers driven.

Vehicles, drivers, c u s t o m e r s a n d products added or imported into FLO.

FLO is a dynamic routing and scheduling desktop application for managing your fleet, products and deliveries. FLO creates delivery schedules optimised to carry more over shorter distances in less time.

Whether you plan on a day-to-day basis or want master route schedules for a week or a month, FLO allows you to create and edit your schedule, then easily amend it with changes to your fleet and existing deliveries.

FLO is highly configurable and is actively used in a large range of delivery operations by many leading companies.

Resource OrganisationImport, organise, maintain and update

FLO captures and organises your truck, trailer, driver, depot and customer information.

FLO’s scheduler creates optimised delivery plans that a u t o m a t i c a l l y incorporate your business rules and constraints.

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Generate delivery documentation and get insight into the efficiency of your s c h e d u l e s w i t h ready-made and customised reports.

How FLO WOrkS

ERP Orders from your ERP or existing order system are pulled into FLO on a daily basis.

Clear CategoriesFLO provides a grid-based view for adding and editing customers, depots, vehicles, drivers and products, OPSI's Import Tool simplifies importing existing records into FLO.

Categories are clearly organised, helping you keep track of your assets and business rules to generate efficient, cost-effective schedules to your exacting requirements.

Resource control and visibilityFLO has an extensive range of schedule tuning options. Whether you want to arrange trips so that the customer furthest from the depot is delivered to first, balance the workload across your available vehicles, or enforce a maximum number of stops per vehicle, FLO allows for these and many more constraints.

FLO keeps track of dynamic constraints as well: which drivers are booked on which vehicles across multiple schedules; shifts; sleep-outs; booked resources for maintenance and more.

ERP IntegrationFLO integrates easily with existing popular ERP solutions, ensuring an unbroken link between order generation, invoicing, scheduling and delivery completion.

Take control of secondary distribution with better

planning, better management, better optimisation

Introducing FLO

FLO is the complete enterprise software solution for creating and managing route schedules to optimise fleet utilisation, capacity utilisation and kilometers driven.

Vehicles, drivers, c u s t o m e r s a n d products added or imported into FLO.

FLO is a dynamic routing and scheduling desktop application for managing your fleet, products and deliveries. FLO creates delivery schedules optimised to carry more over shorter distances in less time.

Whether you plan on a day-to-day basis or want master route schedules for a week or a month, FLO allows you to create and edit your schedule, then easily amend it with changes to your fleet and existing deliveries.

FLO is highly configurable and is actively used in a large range of delivery operations by many leading companies.

Resource OrganisationImport, organise, maintain and update

FLO captures and organises your truck, trailer, driver, depot and customer information.

FLO’s scheduler creates optimised delivery plans that a u t o m a t i c a l l y incorporate your business rules and constraints.

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Generate delivery documentation and get insight into the efficiency of your s c h e d u l e s w i t h ready-made and customised reports.

How FLO WOrkS

ERP Orders from your ERP or existing order system are pulled into FLO on a daily basis.

Clear CategoriesFLO provides a grid-based view for adding and editing customers, depots, vehicles, drivers and products, OPSI's Import Tool simplifies importing existing records into FLO.

Categories are clearly organised, helping you keep track of your assets and business rules to generate efficient, cost-effective schedules to your exacting requirements.

Resource control and visibilityFLO has an extensive range of schedule tuning options. Whether you want to arrange trips so that the customer furthest from the depot is delivered to first, balance the workload across your available vehicles, or enforce a maximum number of stops per vehicle, FLO allows for these and many more constraints.

FLO keeps track of dynamic constraints as well: which drivers are booked on which vehicles across multiple schedules; shifts; sleep-outs; booked resources for maintenance and more.

ERP IntegrationFLO integrates easily with existing popular ERP solutions, ensuring an unbroken link between order generation, invoicing, scheduling and delivery completion.

Your smart, fast and automated planning assistant

Scheduling with FLO

FLO generates cost-effective, efficient delivery schedules while allowing for manual tweaking down to the smallest detail with its advanced routing and scheduling algorithms and transport management, planning and execution tools.

Build better delivery plansFLO eliminates double-bookings, product contamination and potential vehicle-site

incompatibilities through a system of vehicle, product and site exclusions applied to

every schedule generated, while area boundaries prevent your drivers straying into no-

go areas.

FLO’s dynamic tractor-trailer allocation feature ensures that FLO automatically

creates the best semi-trailer vehicle combinations and dynamically adjusts for the maximum weight limits for these combinations.

Extensive editing and comparison toolsFLO lets users edit schedules using a simple drag-and-drop control scheme, with numerous checks and balances, and will automatically update the schedule’s details after each

change. Users can lock trips or routes that they like and then rerun the scheduler for

the remaining routes, then compare the impact of changes between schedule iterations in terms of load capacity, cost and lateness.

Up-to-date maps With the use of online maps, FLO’s route viewer displays route and geographic information

that is always up-to-date. Users can switch between different views - such as a vector-based map and more detailed satellite imagery for identification of landmarks and

other elements - while reviewing their vehicles’ delivery plans.

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Optimising for...Required wait timesIntra-stop sequenceDelivery windowsVehicle exclusions

Loading Times

Cost per dayCost per kmCost per hourDuty timesStop limitVehicle details

Delivery windowsDelivery groupsLine itemsProduct class exclusionsLoad priorityStacking height

Driver costsPDP Licence expiryDepot assignmentDelivery group assignmentSleepout costs

Vehicle classes & assignmentSleepout groupsOvertime groupsUnique groups per day

Dynamic truck/trailer allocationAutomatic payload adjustmentEnforces maximum weight limits

Road speed profilesGeographic barriers Customisable road speeds

Your smart, fast and automated planning assistant

Scheduling with FLO

FLO generates cost-effective, efficient delivery schedules while allowing for manual tweaking down to the smallest detail with its advanced routing and scheduling algorithms and transport management, planning and execution tools.

Build better delivery plansFLO eliminates double-bookings, product contamination and potential vehicle-site

incompatibilities through a system of vehicle, product and site exclusions applied to

every schedule generated, while area boundaries prevent your drivers straying into no-

go areas.

FLO’s dynamic tractor-trailer allocation feature ensures that FLO automatically

creates the best semi-trailer vehicle combinations and dynamically adjusts for the maximum weight limits for these combinations.

Extensive editing and comparison toolsFLO lets users edit schedules using a simple drag-and-drop control scheme, with numerous checks and balances, and will automatically update the schedule’s details after each

change. Users can lock trips or routes that they like and then rerun the scheduler for

the remaining routes, then compare the impact of changes between schedule iterations in terms of load capacity, cost and lateness.

Up-to-date maps With the use of online maps, FLO’s route viewer displays route and geographic information

that is always up-to-date. Users can switch between different views - such as a vector-based map and more detailed satellite imagery for identification of landmarks and

other elements - while reviewing their vehicles’ delivery plans.

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Optimising for...Required wait timesIntra-stop sequenceDelivery windowsVehicle exclusions

Loading Times

Cost per dayCost per kmCost per hourDuty timesStop limitVehicle details

Delivery windowsDelivery groupsLine itemsProduct class exclusionsLoad priorityStacking height

Driver costsPDP Licence expiryDepot assignmentDelivery group assignmentSleepout costs

Vehicle classes & assignmentSleepout groupsOvertime groupsUnique groups per day

Dynamic truck/trailer allocationAutomatic payload adjustmentEnforces maximum weight limits

Road speed profilesGeographic barriers Customisable road speeds

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Reporting for management of key performance targets

FLO Reports

FLO comes with many built-in reports and documentation templates for generating standard transportation documentation such as loading sheets and trip sheets, and provides for customised reports via SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Improve future profitabilityCritical review of previous schedules and historical data is vital in improving your logistic operations, identifying trends and ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are met. The active nature of the secondary distribution environment and flexibility to adjust to meet short-term demands can make accurate and timely reporting a challenge.

FLO's reporting tools offer both standard and customisable reports that draw on the rich historical data that FLO saves over time, letting users retroactively assess their schedules, driver activity and performance against historical trends.

Optimise your business processFLO highlights the time and efficiency of specific activities within the secondary distribution environment that affect your ability to deliver more. Whether it is offload times at customers, how often you visited customers in proportion to the amount of goods delivered or highlighting incomplete deliveries, FLO can help logistics service providers rate and improve capabilities.

You can generate a series of cost reports on your secondary distribution. If you want to isolate the delivery costs for a specific customer, report on the total delivery costs across a certain period or obtain costs per regions, FLO can generate the applicable reports.

Customised reportsFLO offers access to report analysts and writers so they can create their own detailed and customised reports. OPSI can create specialised reports for unique requirements and situations, such as picking slips, loading instructions, dangerous goods declarations and more.

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Reporting for management of key performance targets

FLO Reports

FLO comes with many built-in reports and documentation templates for generating standard transportation documentation such as loading sheets and trip sheets, and provides for customised reports via SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Improve future profitabilityCritical review of previous schedules and historical data is vital in improving your logistic operations, identifying trends and ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are met. The active nature of the secondary distribution environment and flexibility to adjust to meet short-term demands can make accurate and timely reporting a challenge.

FLO's reporting tools offer both standard and customisable reports that draw on the rich historical data that FLO saves over time, letting users retroactively assess their schedules, driver activity and performance against historical trends.

Optimise your business processFLO highlights the time and efficiency of specific activities within the secondary distribution environment that affect your ability to deliver more. Whether it is offload times at customers, how often you visited customers in proportion to the amount of goods delivered or highlighting incomplete deliveries, FLO can help logistics service providers rate and improve capabilities.

You can generate a series of cost reports on your secondary distribution. If you want to isolate the delivery costs for a specific customer, report on the total delivery costs across a certain period or obtain costs per regions, FLO can generate the applicable reports.

Customised reportsFLO offers access to report analysts and writers so they can create their own detailed and customised reports. OPSI can create specialised reports for unique requirements and situations, such as picking slips, loading instructions, dangerous goods declarations and more.

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